To commemorate its seventy-fifth anniversary, The Medieval Academy established a new program of dissertation grants named in honor of five members who over many years contributed to the development of The Academy: Hope Emily Allen, Helen Maud Cam, Grace Frank, Etienne Gilson, and E. K. Rand. Their careers as teachers and scholars reflect the organization's wide-ranging disciplinary interests.

Since the program began, an additional four grants have been funded. These are in honor of John Boswell (semiannual, 2013), Frederic C. Lane (2002), Robert and Janet Lumiansky (semiannual, 2012) and Charles T. Wood (2003).

Dissertation Grant Instructions
Dissertation Grant Application
Dissertation Grant Honorees
Endowing a Dissertation Grant

The Medieval Academy of America Dissertation Grants for 2012

Hope Emily Allen Dissertation Grant
Constance Kassor, Emory University
"Thinking the Unthinkable: Conceptual Thought, Nonceptuality, and the Philosophy of Go rams pa bSod nams Seng ge"

Grace Frank Dissertation Grant
Sarah Celentano Parker, University of Texas
"Embodied Reading as Political Action in the "Hortus Deliciarum'"

Etienne Gilson Dissertation Grant
Divna Manolova, Central European University
"Philosophical Argumentation and Dialogicity in Nikephoros Gregoras' Epistolatory Collection"

Frederic C. Lane Dissertation Grant
Jamie Reuland, Princeton University
"Sounding Resemblance: Music and Ceremony in Venice's Maritime Republic, 1261-1450"

Robert and Janet Lumiansky Dissertation Grant
Allison Fox, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Burial and Resurrection: The Sarcophagi of Ravenna and Visions of Perpetuity in an Age of Flux

E.K. Rand Dissertation Grant
Andrei Gândila, University of Florida
"Marginal Money: Caius, Froutiers, and Barbarians in Early Byzantium (6th and 7th Centuries)"

Charles T. Wood Dissertation Grant
Basit Qureshi, University of Minnesota
"A Sovereign of Two Worlds: Fulk V of Anjou and the Rise of Administrative Rulership, 1109-1143"